You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...

hey @cnn.com there has got to be a way to report these stories about Trump being mad about charging decisions of individual US attorneys without normalizing the idea that the president personally supervises charging decisions of individual US attorneys, I know we can do this

this means nothing, and it is absolutely pathetic that anyone would switch their vote over it. But more to the point, the fact that Blanche so willingly did his part for the single most corrupt agreement in presidential history is disqualifying unto itself and idc if he is pretending to take it back

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: Todd Blanche just issued a formal order that appears to terminate Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund and limit the scope of the IRS audit immunity deal applying to Trump and his family.

your local (!) dialup BBS MS-DOS 3.0 ICQ IBM Model M keyboards Any given Doom level editor The Palace Active Worlds The Simpsons arcade cabinet Ubuntu Blackberry Classic (Q20) Blackberry Curve Blackberry Priv The Yamaha Clavinova series

Jeff Abbott@jeffabbott.bsky.social · last wk.

tech that did not suck: WordPerfect Word for Mac 5.1 WriteNow Nisus Writer the MORE outliner G3 Apple PowerBooks (Pismo) ThinkPads with the really good keyboard Eudora Mail (feel free to add to the list, I wish we could get back to tech that empowers us, not steals from us)

Also consider: -Secondary trauma from seeing violence occur to someone else can lead to the same disabling symptoms as primary trauma. -Trauma symptoms can interfere with rational decision-making, critical thought, social connections, & emotional processing. All important for resisting tyranny.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 2w ago

If this horrific police execution video crosses your timeline consider: - we don’t have to physically witness a murder to know it’s horrific - people who are subject to this type of violence do not have to be repeatedly traumatized by it - you do not have to push violence into people’s timelines

"The review of cases also reveals a pattern of DHS blasting statements to the press and on social media, painting the subjects of their traffic stops as violent assailants without evidence and then failing to correct the record when those claims collapse under basic scrutiny."

Sam Levin@samtlevin.bsky.social · 2w ago

We reviewed DHS' list of immigrants + protesters who "weaponized" their vehicles to "assault" ICE agents. Nearly all claims have been debunked or dropped, with only one of 26 cases ending in an assault conviction. Inside the govt's stunning failure to prove DHS' claims of violence against agents:

If it's not orange jumpsuits I'm not reading this

Teddy Wilson@reportbywilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

ICE Mandates Dress Code After Killings and Botched Arrest

still thinking about the bristling lecture I got from a USCIS adjudicator this AM about why an I-130 immigrant visa petition does not pertain to an "immigrant visa" because "visas are only for people outside the US, we don't do those here." Sometimes it's just not worth arguing what color the sky is

I knew that Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry was so good at rigging districts that he inspired a Boston newspaper's description of the "gerrymander"--but TIL that this man *signed the Declaration of Independence.* Choosing your own voters is a founding principle of the United States

You'll never believe this but these are not in fact the three components of an FTO designation

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2w ago

State Dept. official is asked how Trump admin is targeting Antifa as a Foreign Terrorist Organization — given it's unclear what “Antifa” even is: "Basically, a foreign terrorist organization, we have to have 3 components: It has to be foreign; it has to be terrorist; it has to be an organization."

This was the single most meaningful episode of OA I've been a part of yet. Peter's book helped me to better understand myself as someone with #AuDHD, and to finally feel pride rather than shame for it. I hope that this joyful meeting of autistic minds can do the same for anyone else who needs it

Law on the Spectrum, with Peter O'Neil

Opening Arguments · Episode

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"So many things are possible, just so long as you don't know they are impossible"

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3w ago

the phantom tollbooth www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...

working toward the better world in which Alligator Alcatraz will be replaced by Naples Nuremberg for everyone responsible for this wildly illegal mockery of justice

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3w ago

After a cost of more than $1 billion, the Everglades concentration camp has been removed from the airstrip where it once stood.

"I clearly heard the victim say 'I tried to stop.' Clearly heard that." Appreciate this unequivocal account from someone who will make a remarkably good witness at this ICE agent's murder trial once we finally reach the truth & reconciliation stage

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 3w ago

We must do everything we can to halt the ICE deportation and death machine.

Today, ICE murdered Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. Once again, a family, friends, and community are left carrying the unimaginable weight of a life taken. There are no words that can fully honor the gravity of this moment or the profound loss.

ICE shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero in the head in front of his 3-yr-old daughter in his car today and didn't even try to pretend that the agent was acting out of concern for his own safety the way they usually do. No, he did it "out of concern for *public* safety." This seems very bad.

All of which is to say that the claims about the FBI investigating these ICE shootings is misleading at best. It creates the misimpression that someone at the federal level is working to get to the bottom of what happened and charge it criminally, if warranted. That's simply not true.

The best that can be said about the DHS IG's reviews of these shootings is that if the IG has “reasonable grounds to believe there has been a violation of Federal criminal law” then they are required to report it to the attorney general ... but we know where that leads under the Trump II presidency.

IG/OPR are NOT conducting criminal use of force investigations. That's not their role. They don't have the power to do that. They couldn't if they wanted to. They're conducting an administrative review which can lead to internal discipline for wrongful conduct by federal agents.

Second, what the FBI has been tasked with investigating in other recent ICE shootings, like last week's in Houston, is whether the slain immigrant assaulted federal law enforcement agents. So in those cases the FBI wasn't just not investigating ICE, they were investigating the person ICE shot.

ICE has shot 38 people. 50 people died inside ICE from medical neglect. 10 of the ICE shootings were fatalities. 60 dead 88 rapes Trump's second term.

Two men were executed by ICE in streets thousands of miles apart in the past week. I can't decide if the fact that neither of them were the person that agents were looking for is beside the point or the entire point, but either way these jobs should not exist

Thanks to Dunks for reminding us that abolition is the moderate position

I’m not hearing enough about protestors in the US being arrested and sentenced to 50+ years in prison. Check out Matt’s post below or if listening is more your style, some recent episodes of Opening Arguments cover the essentials.

Matt Cameron@mattcameron.bsky.social · last mo.

I can't stop thinking about Prairieland.

No single policy illuminates the second Trump administration more than their de facto moratorium on refugee admissions and perversion of that state apparatus into a pathway for those who have supported, benefited, and enforced apartheid to resettle stateside. Everything is accusations in a mirror.

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2mo ago

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

The United States of America may never win the World Cup but take heart: we still have the pope, the world’s reserve currency, and the longest unbroken streak of unpunished international war crimes in modern history

With apologies in advance to team usa that is pretty much all anyone should expect in the world cup from a country whose 80-yr-old president literally just learned *today* what a red card is

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 4w ago

what in the shit was that

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated

Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.

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Thanks to the World Cup there is a window of about two months every four years in which I can actually hold my own in a conversation with my clients about a sports thing, and it feels like being temporarily granted the ability to speak French or something